The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-11-24
A VALIANT FIGHT
HOW ROCHESTER,. N. Y, WRESTLED
WITH THE TELEPHONE AND WON.

HOW ROCHESTER,. N. Y, WRESTLED
WITH THE TELEPHONE AND WON.
Rochester, N. Y, is the only city in
orally use the Bell telephone.
On the 29th of November, 1856, about
seven hundred subscribers hung up
their 'phones, aud they have been hung
up since.
1t is the most noteworthy fight with
a corporation ever known.
The cause Of it was the attempt Uf
the local Bell company (whOse officers
all lived III another city, to exact a
rate per message from The subscribers.
resisted it, the courts sustained the
position that the license was revOkable
at will, the common council revoked
1t. The company ignored this action,
and without permission erected poles
III the streets and strung additional
wires, but the courts held that this
was unlawful.
According to the message rate, a
house like II: IL. Warner 4 Co.. prU-
prietOrs Of Warmers safe cure, who
were among the heaviest patrons,
would have to pay something like
service us before.
For u city of l25. 600 people, Roches-
ter has made Il good many sensations.
Sam Patch and his deadly leap. the
Fox sisters' spiritual rappings, Sew
ards "1rrepressible Conflict" speech,
Susan B. AntAony's attempt to vote,
the cOmetary discoveries of DR.. Swift,
of Warner observatory, have each made
the city the talk Of the wnrld;" she
leads i'll the manufacture of proprie-
tary medicine. and her immense nur-
sery, shoe and clothing interests puts
her in the front rank.
The origin of one of her greatest in
dnstries is interesting: About ten
years ago one of her foremost citizens
was stricken down in the very height
of u successful business career, with
| what his doctors said WAS an incurable
| disease. They gave him up to die. He
then used what is now known as War.
ner'S safe cure, and since thel, has de-
veloped rs the worlds great champion
OF the people against the assumed mo.
nopOly Of physicians over the treat.
ment of disease.
His fight, too, has been determined
one, and us successful IS determined.
To-day he is the head of the largest
proprietary medicine business in the
world, having branch houses and lab.
ratOries in London, England; Toronto,
Canada; Melbourne, Victoria; Sydney,
New South Wales; Frankfort, Ger
many; Prague, Austria; i:angoon,
Burmah.
Many foreign governments will not
permit the manufacture and sale ut
if.,
nature until their formula, value and
larml"ssness are by them established.
after the most searching scientific in
Iuiries. In every case Warlpr's safe
cure has passed examination with the
highest satisfaction to the government
chemists and analysts, and the sought
for permission grantt'i, which no other
American has before secured.
This confirms the magnificent r+pu-
tatioD given it by leading physicians,
ministers, senators, congressmen. law
yers and ladies of the world. "Its Sc.
cret of success" says the leading ply
sician at Clifton Springs, n. Y, sani-
tarinm, ''is the simplicity Of it's com.
ponnds and the proportion in whicl,
they are compounded.
"llow do the people get on?"
The universal verdict is: 1--WE don't
miss the 'phone, except to our profit"
There has been practically no break
in the united opposition begun last
November.
The American is getting to he quite
as tenacious Of his personal rights rs
against conspiring monopolies as is the
typical Englishman. and this Roches-
ter telephone episode is 4 noteworthy
Illustration of the fact.